Igor Korolev
Igor Borisovich Korolev (Russian Игорь Борисович Королёв; born September 6, 1970 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, † 7 September 2011 in Tunoschna near Yaroslavl ) was a Russian ice hockey player and coach, who during his career, among other things, for the St. Louis Blues, Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Igor Korolev began his career as a hockey player with the HK Dynamo Moscow, for which he was active in the Russian Super League from 1988 to 1992. With Dynamo, he was in 1990 and 1991 respectively Soviet champion, and 1992 champion of the CIS. He was then in the second round selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1992 as a total of 38 players from the St. Louis Blues, for which he played the following two years in the National Hockey League.
Once the attacker had started the 1994/95 season due to the lockout in the NHL at his former club HK Dynamo Moscow, he was before the season started the NHL in January 1995 transferred to the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he the following two seasons on the ice cream stand. In the season 1996/97 the Russians also ran for their successor team, the Phoenix Coyotes on. Then Korolev played four years for the Toronto Maple Leafs and three years for the Chicago Blackhawks, before he returned during the re- Lockouts in the 2004/ 05 NHL season in his native Russia, where he stood for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl on the ice. Even after this season, the winger remained in Russia, where he was in the next three years at HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk under contract. With Magnitogorsk he won the 2005 Spengler Cup and 2007 Cup and 2008 IIHF European Champions Cup. Before the season 2008/ 09 Korolev joined Atlant Mytischtschi for which he played in the 2008/ 09 season in the Kontinental Hockey League. He then went one more season for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in the KHL on the ice before the Russians ended his career. These dedicated it to match 2011/12 season as an assistant coach. On September 7, 2011, he died in a plane crash near Yaroslavl killed.
Internationally
For Russia Korolev participated in the World Cup 1992 and the World Cup of Hockey in 1996 in part. He also played in the prestigious predecessor event - the Canada Cup in 1991 - the USSR. This he had also represented at the European Junior Championships in 1988.